We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Interpretive categories, implicit representations and resistance against violence in relationships. A male-oriented gender interpretation.
- Authors
Ciccone, Stefano
- Abstract
Confrontation with violence in intimate relationships requires interpretive categories and approaches that can be measured against the complexity of the phenomenon and the pervasiveness of the culture that it stems from. A critical reflection on the social construct of masculinity can prevent the neutralization of violence or its naturalization: two aspects of the more general tendency to remove it from our 'normality'. An analysis of the public discourse on violence shows that even institutional interventions of contrast and media narratives, while condemning abusive and violent behavior, reproduce and convey stereotypical representations that are the substrate on which they grow. In this context, there is a need for reflection on the social responsibility of psychoanalytic thinking as 'expert knowledge', which society turns to in order to interpret conflicts and contradictions whose vulgate often proposes models based on complementarity between functions attributed to the two sexes, stiffening experiences, conflicts and perceptions of change.
- Subjects
INTIMATE partner violence; SOCIAL norms; SOCIAL context; STEREOTYPES; SOCIAL constructionism; PSYCHOANALYSIS; FAMILY conflict
- Publication
Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 2023, Vol 34, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
1827-4625
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4081/rp.2023.756